Experiments with truth: 5/5/10

    May 5, 2010
    • Nearly 200 workers gathered at the Ministry of Labour in Dubai demanding back wages their employers withheld.
    • A group of UC Berkeley students are staging a hunger strike for several demands: that the university oppose the new Arizona immigration law, drop disciplinary charges against protesters from the occupation of Wheeler Hall earlier this year, rehire laid-off janitors, and make the campus a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
    • Members of the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota are exercising civil disobedience by fishing in non-reservation land, demonstrating their right to live off the land.
    • Activists in San Francisco staged a street theater protest this weekend against American Apparel’s sexist advertising.

    Meg Pedersen graduated from Barnard College and is currently based in Washington, DC. She has lived in Denmark and Chile and focuses her work on writing and feminist advocacy.

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